Copying is not theft. Because when you steal something it means the other person doesn't have it anymore.
Time sanctifies everything; even the most arrant theft in the hands of the robber's grandchildren becomes sacred and inviolable property.
All property is theft, except mine.
It's the ultimate identity theft when you start messing with somebody's work. Thinking that you could edit the work, or mix it differently, or re-EQ it, or make claims about it that aren't true.
It would seem to me that I was committing a theft if I were to let one day go by without doing some work.
To use for our exclusive benefit what is not ours is theft.
The Chinese government does not engage in theft of commercial secrets in any form, nor does it encourage or support Chinese companies to engage in such practices in any way.
The method of "postulating" what we want has many advantages; they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil.
Murtagh was right about women. Sassenach, I risked my life for ye, committing theft, arson, assault, and murder into the bargain. In return for which ye call me names, insult my manhood, kick me in the ballocks and claw my face. Then I beat you half to death and tell ye all the most humiliating things have ever happened to me, and ye say ye love me. " He laid his head on his knees and laughed some more. Finally he rose and held out a hand to me, wiping his eyes with the other. "You're no verra sensible, Sassenach, but I like ye fine. Let's go.
Perhaps the greatest justice issue of all is intergenerational theft. The Eighth Commandment says "Thou shall not steal," but every day we live unsustainably we steal from our children and their children.
Every athlete learns by theft and mimicry.
'Grand Theft Auto', in its deification of antisocial behavior, is where I heap the most of my scorn.
Acceptable rules of conduct were suspended when it came to the spoon shortage. The deficit had gotten so bad that prices were all but unaffordable, and dynastic spoon succession had become a matter of considerable interest. Spoons were even postcode engraved and carried on one's person to eliminate theft, and good table manners, one of the eight pillars upon which the Collective was built, had been relaxed to allow tea to be stirred - shockingly - with the handle of a fork.
Unthankfulness is theft.
Executing a murderer is the only way to adequately express our horror at the taking of an innocent life. Nothing else suffices. To equate the lives of killers with those of victims is the worst kind of moral equivalency. If capital punishment is state murder, then imprisonment is state kidnapping and restitution is state theft.
Like other forms of stealing, identity theft leaves the victim poor and feeling terribly violated.
I wish to note that intellectual property theft by a government represents the very essence of organized crime.
Prayer as a means to effect a private end is theft and meanness.
Foster children are disproportionately victims of identity theft.
What is government but theft by consent?